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I make laundry soap at home. I just went in and loaded up on ingredients (stockpiling)
Two of the ingredients have doubled in price and the Fels Naptha was 99 cents and it is now $1.79. Not yet double, but getting close.
So $40 out the door. I bought enough stuff to make 18 gallons of laundry soap, with a bunch of the washing soda and borax left for next time. The laundry soap was costing me $1 a gallon to make and now it is somewhere around $2 a gallon to make.
It's still frugal, with the quality commercial laundry soap costing $20 a gallon or more. But, yikes, it is a shock to the system to see prices go up so much in a year's time. It's a good thing that there is no inflation (according to our government) or we'd all be hurting.
chemicals take out the stains, fragrances make the clothing smell fresh
Cheap Fels Naptha soap takes out stains better than any chemical. It really cuts grease and gets it out.
Fragrances are nothing but artificial scents that give a lot of people headaches, asthma attacks or just plain makes them sick. They're not good for you. To most people the artificial scents do not smell good either. Clean clothing will smell fresh anyway--no need for more chemicals.
By buying on sale/with coupons/on BOGOs or a combination of those, I don't think I've spent more than $2 for my preferred brand detergents (scent free)
32 loads ends up being about 6 cents a load...not enough for me to go out of my way to avoid.
However, to each his own
Ace Hardware is the only place locally that I have found washing soda, so I bought there.
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